Judges 3:18

3:18 After Ehud brought the tribute payment, he dismissed the people who had carried it. ¹ 

Judges 2:4

2:4 When the Lord’s messenger finished speaking these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly. ² 

Judges 8:28

Gideon’s Story Ends

8:28 The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites’ fighting spirit was broken. ³  The land had rest for forty years during Gideon’s time. ⁴ 

Judges 19:17

19:17 When he looked up and saw the traveler ⁵  in the town square, the old man said, “Where are you heading? Where do you come from?”

Judges 21:2

21:2 So the people came to Bethel ⁶  and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably. ⁷ 

Judges 9:7

Jotham’s Parable

9:7 When Jotham heard the news, ⁸  he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim. He spoke loudly to the people below, ⁹  “Listen to me, leaders of Shechem, so that God may listen to you!

Judges 9:54

9:54 He quickly called to the young man who carried his weapons, ¹⁰  “Draw your sword and kill me, so they will not say, ¹¹  ‘A woman killed him.’” So the young man stabbed him and he died.

Judges 16:31

16:31 His brothers and all his family ¹²  went down and brought him back. ¹³  They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led ¹⁴  Israel for twenty years.

Judges 21:23

21:23 The Benjaminites did as instructed. ¹⁵  They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives. ¹⁶  They went home ¹⁷  to their own territory, ¹⁸  rebuilt their cities, and settled down. ¹⁹ 

Judges 9:48

9:48 He and all his men ²⁰  went up on Mount Zalmon. He ²¹  took an ax ²²  in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it ²³  on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!” ²⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “the tribute payment.”

² tn Heb “lifted their voices and wept.”

³ tn Heb “Midian was humbled before the Israelites, and they no longer lifted their heads.”

⁴ tn Heb “in the days of Gideon.”

⁴ tn Heb “the man, the traveler.”

⁵ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁶ tn Heb “and they lifted up their voice[s] and wept with great weeping.” Both the cognate accusative בְּכִי (bekhi, “weeping”) and the attributive adjective גָדוֹל (gadol, “great”) emphasize their degree of sorrow.

⁶ tn Heb “And they reported to Jotham.” The subject of the plural verb is indefinite.

⁷ tn Heb “He lifted his voice and called and said to them.”

⁷ tn The Hebrew text adds, “and said to him.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn The Hebrew text adds, “concerning me.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn Heb “and all the house of his father.”

⁹ tn Heb “and lifted him up and brought up.”

¹⁰ tn Traditionally, “judged.”

⁹ tn Heb “did so.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “And they took wives according to their number from the dancing girls whom they abducted.”

¹¹ tn Heb “went and returned.”

¹² tn Heb “inheritance.”

¹³ tn Heb “and lived in them.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “his people.”

¹¹ tn Heb “Abimelech.” The proper name has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”) due to considerations of English style.

¹² tn The Hebrew text has the plural here.

¹³ tn Heb “he lifted it and put [it].”

¹⁴ tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”